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No. 508,092. Patented Nov. 7, 1893.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK J. DANEHY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CRACKER-STACKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,092, dated November '7, 1893.

Application filed February 23, 1893- Serial No. 463,297- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK J. DANEHY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cracker-Stacking Machines, of which the following is a specification. This machine is for the purpose of stacklar shape, &c., 'i. e., setting themup in line on edge with their sides against each other so that they may be readily and quickly removed for the purpose of being packed in suitable receptacles.

The nature of the invention is fully described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a central longitudinal vertical section of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 isatransverse vertical section on-line as Fig. 1, looking toward the feeding mechanism. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the inclined slotted table which connects the feeding mechanism with the receiver. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of the rear end of the receiving troughs.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The frame A of the machine is supported by legs a, and supports side guards or boards extending the length of the machine on opposite sides, both of said guards being made in two widths or heights B and B, the portions B being-higher and on opposite sides 6f the feeding mechanism, and the portions B being lower and flanking the receiving mechanism.

0 is the driving pulley on the driving shaft 0, which extends through the frame as shown in Fig. 2, and whose opposite end is provided with a small pulley which is connected by abelt C with the pulley D on the shaft D, all supported by the frame. An endless belt or feeding apron E stretches between the guards or sides B around the shaft D, roller d and roller 61, as shown. The roller 01 is supported by the frame and the roller 61 is for taking the slack from the apron and it adjustably, as to height, held in the slotted bracket or hanger e supported by the frame.

The roller (1 being higher than the shaft D,

of the machine.

1ng crackers or biscuits, fancy cakes of simi the apron inclines upward toward the front A platform e (not new) is supported by the frame and lies under the belt between the shaft D and roller 01.

F is a long longitudinally vibrating or reciprocating receiving table set at an angle, as

shown, which inclines upward toward the feeding apron. This table is provided with plates or tracks f on its under side by means of which it moves on and is supported by rollers f sustained by the frame. Longitudinally reciprocating or vibratory motion is applied to the table F by means of an eccentric h on the driving shaft 0, the ring h on said eccentric being connected by a rod or link It with a bracket in on the under side of the table, (Figs. 1 and 3.) Rigidly secured to the surface of the receiving table F is the receiver H formed on its upper surface into a series of troughs H, say five, more or less, in number, extending longitudinally along the surface, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5. Each of these troughs H is concave in cross section, and substantially of shape to receive and fit around a cracker or biscuit set up on edge. The receiver H H is secured to the table F removably by bolts or screws 9 (Fig. 2) so that it can be removed and another sub stituted having troughs of smaller or larger size, if desired. 7 A cross bar I extends across the receiver over the troughs from one side .piece B'to the other, near the lower end of the receiver. This cross bar has a longitudinal slot 1 in which rods J, preferably fiat, are hung, being suspended by cross pins J resting on the bar I on opposite sides of the slot I, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, their lower ends extending into the troughs beneath and serving as stops, as below described.

L is an inclined platform supported at its ends by theportions B of the side piecesz'. e., the portions connecting the portions B and B. This inclined platform or table is provided with parallel slots L extending from the forward edge rearward, said slots being coincident with the ridges between the troughs, of thereceiver; The platform is set so that its rear edge is a trifle below the roller d, while its forward edge, that-is, the portend well into the troughs. P P are partitions or separators secured vertically to the rear portion of the receiver between the troughs by means of slots Z (Fig. 5) and extending into the slots L; and their object is to separate the crackers as they come from the feeding apron and guide them into the troughs on the receiver. The inclined platform L can be removed and another substituted whenever the receiver is changed.

The crackers are placed loose on the endless apron E which carries them forward over the roll at and drops them onto the inclined platform L, down which they slide, guided by the partitions P, and drop into the troughs H on the receiver H. The vibration or reciprocation of the receiver causes the crackers to slip down the troughs and arrange them selves on edge side by side in the troughs against the stops J, from which position they are removed to be packed. A guard S extends from the frame down to the surface of the apron E near its rear portion, for the purpose of preventing any crackers from working back on the apron; and any crowding back of the crackers on the receiving troughs is prevented by the portions L of the table L which project into said troughs.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cracker-stacking machine, the combination of the inclined longitudinally reciprocating or vibrating table F provided with the receiver H having longitudinally arranged troughs H,-and the bar I secured to the frame transversely with the receiver and provided with the slot 1', and hangers or stops J suspended from said bar and extending into the troughs beneath, substantially as described.

2. In a cracker-stacking machine, the combination of the inclined longitudinally reciprocating or vibrating receiver H provided with longitudinally arranged troughs H, the feed-. ing apron E, the inclined platform L intermediate between said receiver and feeder, and provided with the slots L and the partitions or separators P extending from between the troughs up through said slots, substantially as set forth.

3. The herein described improved crackerstacking machine, comprising the frame A B B B", driving shaft 0, eccentric h h, link 70, table F and receiver II H and rollersf, the endless apron E feeding toward the receiver, the inclined platform L, provided with the slots L, and the separators extending from the receiver through said slots, substantially as described.

PATRICK J. DANE HY.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, J. M. I'IARTNETT. 

